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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8c2301e | I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other. | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 9592e1e | I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all. | control dick emotional emotions heartless judgemental judging judging-by-appearance jumping-to-conclusions mean outer-appearance panic stoic truth what-s-inside-that-counts words | Gillian Flynn | |
| 129b19f | I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 625c1be | He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon | Alice Sebold | ||
| c559f27 | Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do. | objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| 69d8ad1 | The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force against those who the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect yo.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 835b584 | Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| b86a8c8 | My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7362575 | Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. | Arthur Golden | ||
| bc67f5b | If you were a girl,Jack said to Dell, I'd marry you. -No. You'd just have sex with me then never call me. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5f60366 | Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. | death inspirational life-quotes origin robert-langdon | Dan Brown | |
| 09802f9 | Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax. | Dan Brown | ||
| cd03ef0 | Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell | Dan Brown | ||
| c78aba7 | In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God. | John Grisham | ||
| cf659c9 | When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. | perjury | John Grisham | |
| 6660fc8 | We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy? | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| f8adbcb | You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. I can't make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks once or twice a year. You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you. | Annie Proulx | ||
| db989b0 | One day I'll get a tattoo for you." Warmth explodes in my chest, in awe that he would mark himself for me. "You don't have to." "I will." His fingers trace my cheek and chills of pleasure run down my spine. "It's what I do. Each tattoo represents the only happy memories I've had. And you, Rachel, you're the happiest." -- | romance tattooed-bad-boys | Katie McGarry | |
| d607d3c | So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!..." | great-expectations | Charles Dickens | |
| c26ec7d | He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael | love waiting | Charles Dickens | |
| b1f1378 | A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted. | love our-mutual-friend | Charles Dickens | |
| 6792fb7 | Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. | nature | Frank Herbert | |
| 8ba0bad | And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1475f65 | Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f102e5a | That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 0c43aea | We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, thou.. | life suicide | Michael Cunningham | |
| 7b3a1ae | What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 6068d7a | Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist. | Truman Capote | ||
| 646df81 | It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1c9124e | The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists... | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9ad4294 | In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e9687ab | during this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entertainment was interactive: theatre, music, sport - the performers and audience were there together, and even a respectfully silent audience exerted a powerful shaping presence on the unfolding of whatever drama they were there for. We didn't need.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d99e41c | I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn't weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. "So it isn't the original building?" I had asked my Japanese guide. "But yes, of course it is," he insisted, rather surp.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 40ef362 | Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3f4f079 | I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me. | hobbit inspirational-attitude sam-gamgee samwise-the-brave the-shire | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2325d57 | Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7571abf | And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Iluvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c20f5b7 | Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the sam.. | frodo gandalf j-r-r-tolkien pain return-of-the-king the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9e77835 | Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 20416e7 | The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough. | David McCullough | ||
| 77463f1 | But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. | Herman Melville | ||
| 3fd727b | Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 69554a2 | Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 446a4df | I care so much I'm sick. | Ray Bradbury |